Making an upgrade

[j4ckaL]

My little brother wants to upgrade our emachines so it will handle modern games. These are the currents specs of the emachine:

AMD Athlon XP 2800+
512MB PC2700
Geforce 4 MX 64MB
the graphics bus is AGP 4x as reported by the nVidia Control Panel

He has $70 to spend. I was thinking perhaps he should get this card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102600

What do you guys think?

 

[Willeh]

I think you should /also/ get another 512 MB pc2700 stick of RAM. It'll really help. And yeh video card looks okay.

 

[Trotter]

I agree.

But you don't have to buy PC2700. I dropped a gig of DDR400 (PC3200) in my old eMachine (which had PC2100 along side it)... no problems.

 

[Willeh]

Didn't know that.. but what trotter said. Guess I was thinking of dual channelling if the mobo supported it

 

[Trotter]

Socket A didn't have dual channel

 

[Nukem]

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=109-AI75GN-00A&cat=VCD
44.50

http://www.memorytek.com/product_info.php?cPath=35_51&products_id=232
39.00

A little more yes, but it gets you both... Just a thought.

 

[Trotter]

Ummm... DDR2 with a socket A? I don't think so, mi amigo.

 

[Nukem]

Ummmm. I don't think it's DDR2... But it is Registered, ECC, so that wouldn't be compatible anyway... Opps...

http://www.pagecomputers.com/store/...y&category_name=12g12c98s318&product_id=99561

This should work... Maybe? dang it trotter... You got me doubting myself now! LOL

 

[Trotter]

It wasn't DDR2, but DDR2 showed up in the header.

But it worked out anyway.

You got me doubting myself now!

We all fire from the hip on occasion... and sometimes we hit our own foot. I know I do.

 

[curtcheese64]

Socket A didn't have dual channel

That's not true. Dual channel capability in a Socket A system is determined by the motherboard. Some Socket A boards support it, some don't.